Splash PRO 1.3.0, 1.3.2 & 1.3.3

[leszekgd]

Ghost said :

It should work fine in m2ts files ine xample but there are some problems with dtsma in mkv files. We are investigating this.

Unfortunately in m2ts files DTSMA is not working where DTS Core is played. (Checked in many m2ts files, muxed out from Blu-ray discs). DolbyTHD works fine.

[intel52]

3. Some Divx/Xvid files still will not play. They freeze the player for about 30s and then a dialog pops up telling me they can't be played. I understand that this is a problem with the external decoders installed on my system, but how far is the solution to this problem? Other media players using the same external decoders do play these files correctly.

Divx/xvid files should work without issues on Win7. I understand it even does not start to play any video? Just freezes player after opening file?

About 80% of the Divx/Xvid files play fine, only about 20% give me the described error. I don't know what the files have in common, they are from several sources, so I guess it's not one bad file, but some error parsing the files.

When opening the files in the player, it just freezes. The player is still showing the background logo, no video. The player reads the complete file from the harddisk in small blocks. It takes very long, about 30 seconds for a 350MB file. 700MB or 1,4GB files take even longer. The player is probably looking for some header, signature or table in the AVI which it doesn't find.

In this time the player is frozen, any mouse click will show the "application has stopped working" dialog from Windows. When it has read the whole file, it will show a dialog box that it couldn't open the file. The player works fine again after that, it's only frozen when it reads the video.

MPC 32/64 bit and VLC are able to play these files correctly, only Splash player doesn't.

Edit:
I ran some tests on the files which don't play and they all use MP3 audio. I got two warning messages when opening the MP3s, maybe the problem is the audio decoding and not Xvid/Divx.

"Truncated or invalid MP3 format detected (18 bytes, should be 30)"
"A non-zero wBitsPerSample value was detected in the MP3 audio format structure. This has been corrected in-memory to zero for better compatibility with commonly installed MP3 audio codecs."

[Splash viewer]

Found Time bug.
When the play automatically advances to the next file, the total playing is not reset.

File1: is 10:00
File2 is 08:00

When the player goes from 1 to 2 the total playing is still 10:00 not 08:00, its very difficult to search.

[vivan]

About AR:
Still problem with not standart AR: hen enterring fullscreen, after some time, file info.

For 4:3 video "Normal" and "Stretch" options works as it should. But "Zoom" works as strech.
For 21:9 video "Normal" and "Zoom" works as it should...

And still problem with The Third Generation PureVideo HD like my nVidia ION.

All current third generation PureVideo hardware (G98, MCP77, MCP78, MCP79, MCP7A) cannot decode H.264 for the following horizontal resolutions: 769-784, 849-864, 929-944, 1009–1024, 1793–1808, 1873–1888, 1953–1968 and 2033-2048 pixel

E.g. for 1024x576 video: hardware, software. Solution - if video adapter is from the list and resolution is form the list - switch to software.
Or it possible playback such video with some hacks like adding dummy macroblocks and then cropping them?

And some suggestions:
Variable fps:
When video with variable framerate - dynamically read and show fps from stream/container. E.g. video with variable 60/30 fps, where is 60 fps for first part, and then 30 fps:
But MPC shows real playback fps (like 45.467 when changing from 60 to 30 or 29.95~30.05 when it just 30) so it's not so good.

Subtitle:
Now there is lot of free space. E.g. style editor form Aegisub: . I think at least "Preview" window should be added.
And maybe margin from bottom... Also I heard, that some people prefer not bottom, but top alignment, but never have seen one of them

And about subtitles.
On my Toshiba + MPC-HC such subs increase cpu usage for about 2-3 times:
(when playback cpu load is about 20-30%, at karaoke-opening part it's 60-80%)
(02:16.40-02:17.09 sometimes it's normal, some times that title lags. And cpu load is about 100% at that time).
- also extreme cpu load (lags on toshiba, but normal on desktop).
Everything exept first one shows on the desktop as it should only when number of pre-buffered subpictures is set to 60. But it causes slow switching between resolutions (e.g. fullscreen <-> windowed) because it renders this 60 subpictures forward every time it happens. And if this number is lower (e.g. 5 or 10) - in some causes it can't render at the time - and subtitles dissapears for one frame.


On netbook any of such subtitles causes 100% cpu load + hang on player for some time, it even hard just to pause...

P.s. I know, that it's really hard work... but you are already compete to projects like MPC, CoreAVC, SVP, so maybe plus VSFilter?).
P.p.s. on the other hand this karaoke madness is needed only for really small % of users. So full support of styles (and linked with them tags like \i, \b, \fs, \c, \alpha) plus \pos will cover mostly all needs.
P.p.p.s. if when in fullscreen mode press "o" and then press it again without moving mouse pointer - it wouldn't dissapear over time. The same thing for playlist (p) and settings (ctrl+s, then esc).

[EvertonMonkey]

I have a problem with thelatest version 1.3.2. I'm using the Intel HD video card integrated in Core i5 and when VIdeo overlay is disabled all the movies I play have a huge lag. When enabling video overlay everything is okay but every time I run Splash Pro it changes my theme to WIndows 7 Basic.
I installed the old version and without video overlay I can play every movie without problems.

I'm having the exact same problem on my Core i3-330M, Intel HD Graphics system. Worked perfectly before the update and is jerky a hard to watch with the update. Video overlay makes it better, but also makes the windows basic graphics profile activate. Please help.

[abejan]

I have a problem with thelatest version 1.3.2. I'm using the Intel HD video card integrated in Core i5 and when VIdeo overlay is disabled all the movies I play have a huge lag. When enabling video overlay everything is okay but every time I run Splash Pro it changes my theme to WIndows 7 Basic.
I installed the old version and without video overlay I can play every movie without problems.

I'm having the exact same problem on my Core i3-330M, Intel HD Graphics system. Worked perfectly before the update and is jerky a hard to watch with the update. Video overlay makes it better, but also makes the windows basic graphics profile activate. Please help.

Same problem here as well, on the same type of system (Core I3-540, H57M, W7) I have to run without hardware acceleration now, which runs OK. I tried running with hw-acc + overlay too, but that did not solve the problem completely.

[EvertonMonkey]

Yeah it was great before the update so somethings gone wrong there.

[vivan]

And 2 more problems, that are happening sometimes, so I can't understand reason (to repeat them).

1) Sometimes when opening file via drag-n-drop - Splash window turns gray and Windows says, that it hanged on (so the only option is to kill application)... And then when starting player again - this repeats every time.
But if first drag-n-drop to the playlist, and then press "play" - it works as it should.

2) Problem with variable fps. Sometimes when video has e.g. 24 fps than 60 fps - splash plays that 60 fps moment for a few moment - and stops (only video - audio and playback continue). Also any gui (like timing popup when moving mouse on the seeking bar is leaving a trace in the video window. Same thong happens when turning on Motion2.
And after than - it happens to any video with variable fps. And also on any video when turning on Motion2 (even on 320x240 video).
But after reboot everything turns to normal.

[Skywalker]

I can`t wait for the next version of Splash Pro with the option to display subtitles outside of video !
Can anyone from Mirillis team to give us an update about the possible date when the next version will be released ?

[Alexannino]

I'm waiting resume function..